The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, organised a webinar titled “Robust performance management in healthcare”, which was delivered by Dr. Ashraf Ismail, Chairman of the General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation, Egypt, and former Managing Director of JCI, Middle East. The webinar was virtually attended by Humaid Al Qutami, Director-General of the DHA, in addition […]
HE Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Director-General of the Emirates Health Services Corporation, met virtually with HE Ian Halliday, Australian Consul General in Dubai, where the two sides reviewed prospects for cooperation and strategic partnerships in the healthcare sector, exchanging of experiences and building capacities in continuing medical education, and cooperation in the field of visiting […]
The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, in collaboration with Friends of Parkinson’s UAE, Genetic Diseases Association and King’s College London held a virtual forum known as Parkinson’s Patients Forum. The forum aimed to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease as well as encourage active participation between doctors, patients and members of the local community with an aim […]
The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, has announced that the annual seasonal flu awareness drive will begin on 28th September and will last until the end of January 2021. This year’s campaign is of particular importance as it coincides with COVID-19 pandemic and enhances the relevance of getting vaccinated against seasonal flu to curb […]
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) has launched a College of Nursing and Midwifery, offering two MSc programs in Cardiovascular and Pediatric nursing. The new college is the latest decisive step in MBRU’s mission to become a global hub for innovative and integrated healthcare education. Designed to support and improve the […]
The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, highlighted the important role of the HASANA system for disease surveillance and management during the pandemic. HASANA is an integrated electronic public health system for disease surveillance and management. The DHA launched the system to link medical laboratories in government and private healthcare institutions in Dubai to provide a unified […]
More than 6.7 million laboratory tests were conducted by the Dubai Health Authority’s, DHA, Pathology and Genetics Department in 2019. Out of the 6,696,885 tests conducted last year, 2,666,805 were visa screening tests, 61,736 were pre-marital tests and 9,499 were genetics tests. The remaining tests were of microbiology, haematology and transfusion services, biochemistry, immunology, histology […]
The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, announced today the results of the 2017 to 2019 study on incidence and trends of influenza in Dubai. The results were discussed during a webinar organised by the authority to discuss seasonal influenza in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar was moderated by Dr. Hamid Yahya Hussain, Consultant […]
Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced that Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has become the first healthcare authority in the UAE to integrate its flagship clinical decision support resource UpToDate® with an electronic medical record (EMR). The initiative allows doctors, nurses and pharmacists across 18 DHA sites to access UpToDate from within the Salama EMR to make […]
